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Just One More Turn....
The_Lightbringer
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We've all been there at least once in our lives, Thursday at 4am in the morning and you're tired, groggy, with messy hair and a table sprawled with empty mountain dew cans. Your brain logically tells you that you need sleep to maintain functional awareness for the day, your body tells you that you're sore and overworked, you eye lids feel like heavy stone tablets that you can't seem to keep up. But through it all you manage to work up what's left of your willpower to see your game through, always convincing yourself that once the most immediate task is complete that you will hit the bed always using an excuse that follows along the lines of:
-Just five more minutes
-Just one more turn
-Right after I level up
-After I turn in my quest
-After I kill the this
I've had a few late gaming nights before, nothing too severe but this one occasion I think I've sunk to my gaming low. My most humiliating moment of gaming happened last week on a Saturday, with most of my residence mates having gone home or are in a "chill out" mode the weekend was mostly going to be a boring and laid back one.
With nothing in need of immediate attention I decided to purchase the recently available game on steam "Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines", a pretty good game that has an engrossing atmosphere and storyline. So I start playing soon after dinner at around 8pm and all through the night. Now I admit that I am terrible with self control when I get new games to play but even this scenario was the furthest I've ever sunk to. All through the early morning I told myself "Oh one more quest" or "Right after I turn this in", which was a pretty terrible system because everytime I finished one quest I wagered the next one wouldn't take much of my time, rinse and repeat. However, at around 5am or so, every part of my body, soul and mind was aching for sleep. So stuck in a quest I know would be extremely long and enduring, and having used almost every logical excuse I could think of, I told myself "Oh no problem, I don't need any sleep... I'm a Vampire!"
It took me a minute to process what I just thought, after I did and I realized how completely engrossed I was in the game, I saved, quit and went straight to bed.
Well, that's the worst I've ever been in. Are there any experiences or stories other players would like to share where they had their hobby take the better of them?
-Just five more minutes
-Just one more turn
-Right after I level up
-After I turn in my quest
-After I kill the this
I've had a few late gaming nights before, nothing too severe but this one occasion I think I've sunk to my gaming low. My most humiliating moment of gaming happened last week on a Saturday, with most of my residence mates having gone home or are in a "chill out" mode the weekend was mostly going to be a boring and laid back one.
With nothing in need of immediate attention I decided to purchase the recently available game on steam "Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines", a pretty good game that has an engrossing atmosphere and storyline. So I start playing soon after dinner at around 8pm and all through the night. Now I admit that I am terrible with self control when I get new games to play but even this scenario was the furthest I've ever sunk to. All through the early morning I told myself "Oh one more quest" or "Right after I turn this in", which was a pretty terrible system because everytime I finished one quest I wagered the next one wouldn't take much of my time, rinse and repeat. However, at around 5am or so, every part of my body, soul and mind was aching for sleep. So stuck in a quest I know would be extremely long and enduring, and having used almost every logical excuse I could think of, I told myself "Oh no problem, I don't need any sleep... I'm a Vampire!"
It took me a minute to process what I just thought, after I did and I realized how completely engrossed I was in the game, I saved, quit and went straight to bed.
Well, that's the worst I've ever been in. Are there any experiences or stories other players would like to share where they had their hobby take the better of them?
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On the Wii launch day, actually. I had stayed out the night earlier with my friends before going home at about 5am. I them got my stuff ready and went to Target to wait in line for the system. After a few hours, I got it, and then went home and set it all up. I played Twilight Princess for about 4 hours on NO SLEEP (about 50 hours). I eventually saved after the forest temple and just completely crashed for the rest of the day.
The funny part is that when I woke up I barely remembered playing. The brain wasn't registering what I had played, but I think I kind of have mechanism in my head, similar to the adrenal gland, that emits some sort of chemical that keeps my going for Zelda.
I just need to beat this guy.
Sunrise. One more round.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
4 hours later and I still couldn't find Nalbina.
Second rule of Teacher Club: You DO NOT touch the kids.
Of course the advent of sleep mode has solved this.
Fuck sleep, only a few more turns until Zackarov can drop the planet busters on that bible-thumping Miriam bitch.
It also happens to me a bit in strategy games, getting caught up with building up a base or something before quitting.
Buy some useless stuff at my Cafepress site!
"Just one more objection...WHAT? Oh shit, I gotta see how the rest of this is gonna go. *20 minutes later*
...New case. Well...maybe just to the court room*repeat process until game is beat'd*"
Fucker beat me to it. Nothing, from Galactic Civilizations 2 to Civ 4, has managed to reduce me to the same gibbering pile of overworked muscle and sinew that this game did the morning before finals. I don't regret it.
Nice. I have put stayed up really late countless times because of that game myself.
"no more sex"
Sooo many all night gaming sessions...
Harkening back to the Xcom days... omg..
Just have to research this new alien tech, just have to buy new weapons, just have to never ever sleep and realise its 8am and im supposed to go to school...omg... /crash/
Tribes also was a killer for... Just one More Map....
The long nites me and my mates spent just ma'ing over and over...it will never get old!
* i could probably fire it up tonight and still have that feeling!*
:whistle: And de Trogdor comes in the niiiight!:whistle:
It's 1.30 am right now and I came downstairs to send a message to someone and ended up playing God Hand again.
I need to hide that game for a while I think. i think I play this game much like someone would play a MMORPG, just play it subconciously or as another activity while they do something else.
Alpha Centauri was pretty bad too. "Oh crap! They've got how many turns until they have the planetbuster??!!? CRAP! I didn't even think they had regular missiles yet!" Thus would begin a deathmarch across the continent.
As an afterthought, I think the worst would actually have to be a tie between FireArms (HL mod) and Worms World Party.
I didn't even plan on doing it. I just kept going "well, one more world" until I beat the first one. Then I popped in the second one going "I'll just play it for a bit to see how it compares" and then the cycle happened again.
Then I got kicked out of college for not going to class and smelling bad.
Joo crazy mang
Even WoW didn't make me lose track of time like that.
I go into my bed at 12, and I think "I'll just play a little before I sleep."
When I stop playing, I look at my clock and "oh my god its 1:30"
Mario and Luigi had a similar effect.
I rarely beat console games within a week like I do with portables, though. The only time I can think of doing this recently was with KH2, because I was determined to beat it on a rental. And I did.
That made me laugh out loud, or 'lol', if you will. Just had this running image of your game playing experience in my head and that mental image was the perfect punchline.
Did I mention that the PS2 was in my sister's room?
At present, it's two in the morning and I'm about to boot up CS:S
thats the spirit, live fast and die young
Then one day a month or so back, I went to my friend's house, and was just hanging out playing Viva Pinata. 5 hours. 5 fucking hours straight of Viva Pinata. I still don't know how I did it. The game is just so mellow it never dawned on my I was playing for so long.
I think I play other game like Halo or Gears in shorter bursts is because they get to me, they get me tense and nervous. Viva is the exact opposite and I think that is why I was able to play it for so friggen long.
Just one more song.
Just one more song.
JUST ONE MORE SONG.
My Emperor would be sitting in his pimp throne in Constantinople while my armies of Byzantium Ass Kickers and Name Takers (Filled with Cataphracts, Byzantium infantry, Trebozond Archers and Varangian Guard) led by one of his sons who are all vicious, merciless, 9 star super generals. I believe I was once at war with almost every single civilization in the game for the only reason because I could take them all out. It was glorius.
Most of Turkey, and Baltic Europe was under the Iron Fist of the Second Roman Empire and I had multiple armies all ready to invade in all directions.
In the east, a the Egyptians formed a massive peasant army that was augmented by a desperate Turkish Jihad dug itself in Antioch.
To the North, The Russians have prepped large forces in Georgia and what looks to be Ukraine. Things are complicated when the Germans invaded and obliterated the Hungarian empire which had been acting as my buffer. While to the west, the Italians were throwing everything they have to conquer my foothold in the Balkans. Things are not helped when an English Crusade is launched and completely butchers France's army into the crusade and was soon deep in fighting side by side with the Italians around the Serbian area.
Of course, this pitiful "resistance" would not stand up to the righteous might of the Byzantium empire! With a massive fleet at my disposal, Byzantium marines wreck havoc on poorly defended Egypt while filling the Imperial coffers with much gold. Egyptian counter attacks were repelled easily as their poorly trained, conscripted peasants fell in their thousands to the spears of my Cataphracts and Alan Cavalry. Even their Caliph fell to the mighty axe of a Viking Varangian. With the leader dead, Egypt descended into civil war, with their allies dead, Turkey feel quickly to a single stack of Byzantium troops. Without any real resistance, the middle east and north africa was subjugated without much effort.
With my coffers overflowing with Arabian gold, I hired every single mercenary I could find (Which was alot after the fall of Egypt and Turkey) and threw them, wave after wave against the Western front to soften them up for my disciplined legions.
Weakened from years of mercenary hordes, my legions pushed through and annihilated all resistance, devastating the German heartland, crushing the crusade, sacking Milan and in a 2 pronged attack with marines in the south and the Byzantium army in the north took out the Italian peninsula. The battle lasted alot of turns because these armies actually had quality troops and many castles. At around this time, I had just completed formation of a new expeditionary force made up of veterans of the eastern campaign with conscripted Arabian soldiers that pushed it's way across Georgia and straight for Muscowy.
The rest of europe was rather uneventful because there was no one else who could match my Imperial might, I gave up on the game when I found myself master of 3/4 of europe because it seems pointless spending the obscene amount of time it would take to conquer the last parts. Especially since there was no worthy opponents left to fight.
That took alot of time to play. And was actually physically exhausting. To this date I still think of all total war games that the first Medieval is the best. For some reason I prefer the 2d polygon troops than the 3d ones that have nowadays.
I put in a couple twelve hour days on that fucker.
I don't really game a whole lot. Just if I do it for to long especially before bed That can happen.
AstroMUD was worse though. Much... much... worse.
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Even Twilight Princess didn't get that treatment. Then again, I'd stayed up all night for my Wii, AND it was my birthday again (did I mention how much Nintendo loves me?), so my friends and I spent all day playing WiiSports, just putting in Zelda at one point to gawk at it. And my friends had ALSO stayed up all night, so let's just say we were extremely waggled out by suppertime. But starting the next day, my life was Zelda until I was done with it, a good week or so later. Every waking non-school non-work non-sex hour was spent waggling my way through Hyrule. Aww yeah.
I also all-nighted MGS3 from the jail cell all the way to the end. I kept telling myself "It can't be MUCH longer", but as it turns out, even after you beat the Shagohod, you still got quite a bit of game left.